Dear victims,
You need to understand something about the pain you are feeling. Someone has hurt you, misused you, or abused you. You are right to feel wounded, and I'm sincerely grieved for what has happened to you.
However, there is great danger in those wounds you're nursing right now. Sometimes the pity and sympathy…
We had a great night of worship at an area-wide gathering of churches, hosted by Crossroads Baptist Church in Ft Myers FL. Thanks to the terrific band and to everyone who came out!
One day recently, I was in my office at church when a ministry friend stopped by at the door to chat.
As we talked through the joys and pains of ministry, she reminisced about a particularly tough time in her husband's pastorate. After decades of faithful service to a congregation, some power brokers within their…
…just stop it already. Right now. Seriously.
You know who you are. You’re the ones “setting people straight” on social media and correcting their opinions.
You were the ones in the pandemic who pointed out when people stood 5 feet away from someone instead of 6. You scolded us every time we touched our…
We pray for our lives to go smoothly. We beg God to stay with our plan and keep to our schedule. But sometimes God wants our plans to fall apart so His plan can go into action.
When I lead a worship service, I plan every detail out specifically. I respect people’s time, so I…
I’ve noticed that my friends from outside the church usually only bring up God with me in times of crisis. They look at me oddly when I talk about death as a positive thing, and about actually yearning for heaven.
From their curious stares, you’d think I’d just said I believed in Middle Earth and would…
My mom has always been a source of gentle humor in our family. Whenever she got amazed or exasperated by something, Mom would try to say, “Well …” — probably meaning to eventually say “well, I never.”
Instead, all that came out was a “wuh” noise. Then she would say it repeatedly, in a sort…
It’s ok that we don’t agree. In spite of the culture trying to polarize us into opposite camps, it is possible to disagree and still be friends.
Notice I didn’t say it’s easy. Just possible. And all that depends on three little dots (…)
Have you noticed those three dots blinking when someone is texting…
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Tonight I’m icing my knee. It’s the end of the day and my body has several smaller injuries - a jammed thumb, a sore shoulder. But the knee is getting the attention first. That’s where our foster child, a seven-year old boy with an amazing amount of strength and anger, kicked me as hard as…
So how do you kill 6 million innocent people and still sleep at night?
Easy. You do it the same way “civilized people” rationalized the enslavement of millions of Africans just a couple of centuries ago. You arbitrarily decide the people you want to destroy are somehow
not.
quite.
human.
That’s right. The same logical…
